New details regarding the production budget of Sony Interactive Entertainment and Sucker Punch Productions’ upcoming action-adventure game, Ghost of Yotei, has been revealed.
During an interview with GameFile (via Twitter/X user Jorraptor), Sucker Punch Productions co-founder Brian Fleming shared some insight regarding the production budget of the studio’s upcoming title, Ghost of Yotei. Going by what he said, the action-adventure title has taken around the same amount of money to make as the developer’s previous game, Ghost Of Tsushima. The latter had a reported budget of roughly 60 million US Dollars.
“When we look at the financials and the costs, the man years, the amount of months that the team—times the size of the team—worked on it, [it’s] very, very similar, actually”, said Fleming, implying that Ghost of Yotei’s budget is also in the ballpark of Ghost of Tsushima’s production cost.
Elsewhere during the interview, Fleming was asked about former Sucker Punch Productions character artist Drew Harrison’s controversial social media remarks on the death of activist Charlie Kirk, and her subsequent firing as a result. “The facts are accurate,” he said. “Drew’s no longer an employee here. I think we’re aligned as a studio that celebrating or making light of someone’s murder is a deal-breaker for us, and we condemn that, kind of in no uncertain terms. That’s sort of our studio, and that’s kind of where we are.”
In her aforementioned post on Blue Sky, Harrison had said, “I hope the shooter’s name is Mario so that Luigi knows his bro got his back.” Others likely reported her to Sony Interactive Entertainment or Sucker Punch Productions, which led to her subsequent post, in which she addressed those people, saying that, instead of emailing her employer, they should be emailing their “reps and demand gun control immediately.” She further stated that if “standing up against fascism” is what ends up costing her the dream job she has held for 10 years, she would “do it again 100x stronger.”
